Reply #27: This is what they are getting from me [View All]

Dear Sir/Madam,
Your report last night concerning the recent election was very disappointing. While I have watched your show often and always considered it to be a program of journalistic quality I’m afraid like many other news outlets you have slipped into the abyss. To begin with your introduction was so highly editorial that it would be better not to mis-represent yourselves as objective or even all that informative for that matter. To band the serious election problems encountered with the “internet conspiracy crowd” is not only inaccurate but insulting. To take such a serious and complex issue in a commercial riddled three segment hack attack is a public dis-service.
The problem with the exit polling has been largely hidden and with serious concerns arising information has been scant. Instead of pre-ordaining people as conspiracy theorists why don’t you stop opining and start reporting.
Your middle segment created more questions than it answered and included only a minuscule amount of the information that is out there. It undermined your initial assertion given that you could not explain serious machine allotment issues. By the way ever heard of John Conyers? Hello! His staff prepared a meticulous and well documented report that is over 100 pages long! The reason the INTERNET is so vibrant with people trying to piece things together is because you have done such a pathetic job following the story.
O.K. so you do a fluffy piece and sell some advertising but then you have to truly offend. What was the segment with Haynes and Cokie suppose to do? Make it seem O.K.? I had a lot of respect for them both until now. Many on the INTERNET don’t approve of anybody pulling any funny business including the Kennedys. Oh, so if a black is discriminated against today should they get over it because there once was slavery? Should women give up the notion of equality in this culture? Back in the early 1900's they couldn’t even vote!
Many in this country right now feel this President has not been honest. Lack of honesty leads to a lack of credibility, and distrust. With partisanship rampant and transparency at an all time low we need a media that questions this lack of transparency (viewing of electoral records, polling data, etc. on a timely basis ) not adds to it. Perhaps the three of you are uninformed as to the serious problems with a limited number of voting machine companies and their close ties to this administration having a stranglehold on the process. Could any of you make sense of an audit log from a tabulator now in use with your infinite wisdom about this subject? I doubt it. I guess the many complex issues affecting us and perhaps swaying the balance of power, equality and justice in this country in the wrong direction will be explained by the simple notion “boys will be boys” (sorry cokie). At least on the INTERNET one gets many sides, pro and con, crazy and sane, and one must think for themselves and decide (remember critical thinking) instead of a farce of trivialized factually deficient opinion masquerading as journalism. By the way thanks for all the Iraqi and Ukrainian updates. You covered those like a glove. Thanks also for the updates on H.A.V.A. implementation and on the rapid progress in the Congress of other electoral reform. People on the INTERNET are pretty kooky especially the ones who think it is not right to be sending troops to die in foreign lands for the cause of democracy when we apparently are having trouble counting on our own.